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2 Tibetans Set Selves On Fire

2012-05-28T09:19:33Z

BEIJING -- Two men engulfed themselves in a burst of flames outside a Buddhist temple popular with tourists and pilgrims in Lhasa, marking the first t...

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2 More Buddhist Monks Set Selves On Fire In Tibet

2012-05-27T21:08:05Z

BEIJING — Two men engulfed themselves in towering flames outside a temple that is a popular tourist site in Lhasa, marking the first time a rece...

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Arianna Huffington: My Conversation With The Dalai Lama: The Convergence Of Science And Spirituality (Part 2) (VIDEO)

2012-05-15T20:36:26Z

To find the peace of mind that alone can replace aimless searching, which has led to an epidemic of stress, anxiety, and drugs, the Dalai Lama is looking to science to convince a skeptical society of the power of contemplation and compassion to change our lives and our world.

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WATCH: Arianna Huffington Interviews The Dalai Lama

2012-05-14T13:17:25Z

His Holiness the Dalai Lama sat down with Arianna Huffington at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London to celebrate his Templeton Prize, and discuss the imp...

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Arianna Huffington: My Conversation With The Dalai Lama: The Convergence Of Science And Spirituality (VIDEO)

2012-05-14T13:15:31Z

For his decades-long passion to bring together science and spirituality the Dalai Lama was awarded the Templeton Prize this week. I sat with him before the awards ceremony. Here is our conversation.

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Bianca Jagger: Why Tibet Matters

2012-05-14T08:40:45Z

The Tibetans are standing up to the vast and expanding power of the Chinese state with nonviolent resistance through religious practice, song, literature and even self-immolation.

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China Denies Plot To Assassinate Dalai Lama

2012-05-14T06:16:56Z

BEIJING -- China accused the Dalai Lama of being deceitful Monday after he reportedly alleged that Chinese agents trained Tibetan women to assassinate...

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Kyle Scott: Adam Yauch's Work in Tibet More Important Than Ever

2012-05-10T17:12:04Z

When Adam Yauch died, his family and friends lost someone they loved. The rest of us lost someone we knew of and whose work we loved. The Tibetan people lost one of their most high-profile supporters in the U.S.

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PEAKING LATE: 70-Year-Old Mountain Climber Plans Rare And Risky Everest Ascent

2012-05-10T06:34:00Z

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, May 10 (Reuters) - A 70-year-old climber who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest three years ...

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Tenzin Dorjee: Remembering Adam Yauch

2012-05-04T23:00:35Z

I met Adam Yauch only once. It was during a bathroom break, which came at the end of a heated session in a Tibet-China conference at Harvard in 2002. We greeted each other in Tibetan.

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Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch Remembered For Tibetan Activism, Freedom Concerts

2012-05-04T14:14:57Z

Fans are mourning the death of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, and are remembering an influencer who both changed the face of rap and the way stars bring ...

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Brigid Brett: The Dalai Lama Comes to San Diego

2012-05-03T16:45:37Z

I've always had a hard time understanding the Buddhist concept of non-attachment but after hearing the Dalai Lama talk about his deep respect for both science and religion, I have a better grasp of it.

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Rebecca Novick: Guns, Monks and Magic: Tibet's Greatest Escape, Part 2

2012-05-01T17:10:31Z

Yidam Kyap was part of what was almost certainly the largest single group to escape into exile from the embattled eastern regions of Tibet in 1959. Here is part two of his two-part story.

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BJ Gallagher: Buddha CEO: Five Mantras for Your Workday

2012-05-01T16:12:44Z

If you really want to be a good student of the Buddha and you're willing to take on a difficult learning assignment, here's a radical suggestion: love your problem people. They can teach you lessons that wonderful people never can.

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Rebecca Novick: Guns, Monks and Magic: Tibet's Greatest Escape, Part 1

2012-04-27T13:56:46Z

In April 2010, I interviewed a Tibetan monk named Yidam Kyap as part of the Tibet Oral History Project that documents the life stories of Tibetan elders living in exile.

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Kate Saunders: Honoring Chinese, Tibetan and Uyghur Writers -- When the London Book Fair Did Not

2012-04-19T16:19:17Z

The Book Fair and the British Council had an opportunity to uphold cherished British values of free speech and send a strong message to the Chinese Communist Party that Beijing cannot export its censorship to a free western democracy. But they chose not to do so.

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Reports: Tibetans Set Selves On Fire

2012-04-19T12:26:17Z

BEIJING -- An overseas activist group says two lay Tibetans have set themselves on fire in front of a monastery in eastern Tibet.

London-based Free T...

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James Rotondi: Ian Astbury: The Cult's "Smash-and-Grab Buddhist"

2012-04-11T17:40:00Z

A restless autodidact who routinely references Joseph Campbell, Terence McKenna, Pema Chödrön, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and other teachers, Astbury leads what he calls "a very nomadic existence."

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Sourav Roy: India's Cold Shoulder for Tibet

2012-04-10T13:05:53Z

While Tsundue emerges as the modern-day Che Guevara for Tibetan youth, Dalai Lama springs hope in the hearts of thousands of Tibetan exiles. But, the billion-dollar question is, what stand is India adopting over Tibet in modern times?

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WATCH: Pain And Progress In Burn Care (NSFW)

2012-04-06T17:56:48Z

What actually happens to the body when it catches fire, and what technological advances in burn treatment await on the horizon?

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Tibetan Self-Immolation Wave Among History's Biggest

2012-04-02T09:40:42Z

BEIJING -- Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames e...

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Tibetan Monks Set Selves On Fire

2012-03-31T11:44:04Z

BEIJING -- Two Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in a western Chinese city in the latest in a wave of self-immolations protesting against Chinese r...

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Stephan Talty: What The Dalai Lama Should Do Now

2012-03-31T07:01:24Z

The Dalai Lama is fast running out of time. The leader of Tibet has repeatedly said that he will return to Lhasa again to walk the streets he knew as a boy. But every year that passes, there is less and less chance that it will.

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Hacking In Asia Linked To Chinese Ex-Graduate Student

2012-03-30T12:52:03Z

SAN FRANCISCO — A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former graduate studen...

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Claudia Ricci: Tibetan Monks Crisscross The U.S. Making Sand Mandalas

2012-03-29T14:52:22Z

The monks, who hail from the Ganden Jangtse Monastery in Mundgod, South India, are on a year-long tour through the U.S., spending time in communities that are interested in learning more about Buddhist philosophy and practices.

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